F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:10:57 +0000
Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 November 2011 13:21, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:25:54 +0000 (UTC)
> > Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > > Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the
> >> > > know, so I asked.
> >> >
> >> > No more than anyone - there really is no cabal ;) All I know is
> >> > what the GNOME / desktop team have said in public, but what
> >> > they've said seems to point in a Shell-y direction, to me.
> >>
> >> I meant, on average, a guy working for Red Hat would know a whole
> >> lot more about Gnome than myself, who's got zero knowledge.
> >>
> >> Anyhow, it's not the shell per se that's the problem. It's the
> >> overview mode - so bloody annoying with its constant expose in/out
> >> animations, lack of desktop visibility etc. I know - it looks great
> >> on YouTube. Not so great when you have use it for work all day.
> >>
> >> Ah, never mind - just whinging...
> >>
> >
> 
> >   Install xfce. You'll be happy w/that.
> >
> 
> This is essentially giving up. It's frustrating to be stuck on
> overview mode on a four core machine while gnome-shell is doing
> /something/ but you don't know what. If it worked fluidly it would be
> okay. Actually, the responsiveness issue isn't limited just to
> overview, but that's where it's most annoying because it completely
> cuts you off. (And ten seconds to get the applications list, really?)
> 

It's not giving up. It's moving on to something which does what you
want.

There's no malice here - just sense.

-sv